Lamont v. West Penn Power Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Frazer,

The West Penn Power Company in March, 1924, completed the construction of a power plant with high tension electrical transmission wires above a public road which traverses a triangular section of plaintiff’s farm of five acres, in Plum Township, Allegheny County. The power cables, or lines, each carry and transmit 132,000 volts of electricity, and are suspended from steel towers, which structures are not upon plaintiff’s land, but within 80 feet of it; and from these towers the wires extend over claimant’s property. His dwelling house, in which he resides, is…